Dispensing apparatus



J. CHANDLER. DISPENSING APPARATUS. APPLICATIQN FILED AUG.10, 1921.

Patented June 20, 1922.

Inventor 1 Attorney JEBMAIN CHANDLER, O13 TOLEDO, Q1110.

DISPENSING. APPARATUS.

Specification oflietters Patent. Pgtghfgd J 2Q 1922 Application filed August 10, 1921. Serial No. 31,265.

To all In/mm it may concern:

Be it known that l. JERMAIN i iiANpLEn, a citizen of the United States 01"" America, re-

, siding at Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, have invented new and useful Dispensing Apparatus, ot whioh'the following is a specification.

Thisinvention relates to the control of the feeding of strip material.

This invention has utility when incor porated in dispensingapparatus forsan1- tary towels, toilet paper, etc.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the invention for dispensing paper towels from a roll of such stock;

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the charging end of the dispensing apparatus of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the feed control end of the apparatus;

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the mounting or outer shell of the apparatus, other portions being partially broken away;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of the roll release and actuator; and

Fig. 6 is a partial section on the line VL-VI, Fig. 3.

Screws 1, through brackets 2 serve to an chor the outer housing or mounting 8 in position against a support or wall 1. This tubular housing 3 has an open end 5 adjacent which is a hinge 6 for a gate 7 swingable into closed position to be locked by a lock 8. This gate 7 has central bearing opening 9 for trunnion 10. This trunnion 10 thereby mounts one end of roll support 11 as a U-shaped metal strip providing a rectangular core, the trunnion 10 being in the bend of the U-portion thereof. The free ends of the U-support 11 are riveted to a disk 12, having inwardly struck out portions 13 as'engaging or anchoring means for embedding into the end of a roll 14; of strip material, as paper towels. Outwardly struckup fingers 15 from the disk 12 engage flange 16 from tubular bearing 17 concentric with closed end 18 of the housing 3.

Within this outer stationary bearing member 17 is inner bearing member 19 having fixed therewith element 20 anchored to the support 11, 12, and to extensions 21, say by spot welding. These extensions 21, have weakened or resilient portions 22 and then form a pair of opposing U-shaped or channel grips housing a spring 24: normally thrusting these handle or grip portions outwardly, to have clutch element portions 25 thereof in engagement with opposing clutch element portions 26 of collar 27 carried by the disk or mounting end 18, and in axial alignment with the bearings 17, 9.

. In operation a free end of paper from the roll 14 may protrude through opening 28. In order to obtain a section of such paper, pulling thereon will not unwind it from the roll, but will only draw it up toward the side of the opening 28 to be torn oii at such region. To ei'lect paper delivery, the end of the paper from the roll 14 should be lightly pulled through the opening 28, and the handle or grip portions 23 grasped with the other hand and so squeezed as to be flexed upon the weakened or resilient portions 22 that toothed or clutch elements 25 are withdrawn from the clutch elements 26, and as so withdrawn, the handle 28 is then rotated to turn the roll support 11 and with it the roll 14 so that the paper may be withdrawn from the mounting 3 through the opening 28 oi the desired length.

It is contemplated the clutch release by the grip shall be awkward and fatiguing for continued operation, to the end that the paper may not be misused, but only taken in such small portions as actually needed, thereby conserving the supply. The open end of the housing permits a convenient charging of a supply renewing roll upon the support 11, as a supply is exhausted therefrom. Furthermore this open end 5 permits observation of the roll and working of a tree end of the paper down toward the opening 28 in the event there may be a break in the continuity of the strip on the roll.

What is claimed and it is desired to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A support for a roll of strip material, said support being provided with roll engaging means, a mounting for the support in which the support is rotatable, a handle for operating the support, and a clutch releasable by shifting a handle and normally holding the roll and support against rotation as to the mounting.

2. In the carrying of a roll of strip material, a support for the roll provided with roll engaging means, and a mounting for the support in which mounting the support is rotatable embodying a clutch, said support being provided with an actuating handle, there being engaging means between the clutch and handle normally precluding 0peration of the support as to the mounting,

said handle including means shiftable as to the clutch for freeing the support for rotation from the handle. is

3. A carrier for a roll of strip material embodying a roll support provided with roll engaging means, and a support mounting in which the support is rotatable, said support being provided with a handle including means shiftable as to the mounting.

4:. A strip material roll carrier embodying a roll support provided with roll allchoring means, and a support mounting in which the support is rotatable, said support being provided with a yieldable grip handle as a vclutch element and said mountspring into roll holding position.

In witness whereof I affix my signature.

J ERMAIN CHANDLER.

Certificate of Correction.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,420,080, granted June 20, 1922, upon the application of Jermain Chandler, of Toledo, Ohio, for an improvement in Dispensing Apparatus, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 8, claim 3, after the Word rotatable and before the comma insert the Words embody 2 mg a clutch; and that the said Letters Patent should be read With this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 11th day of July, A. 1)., 1922. I

[SEAL] KARL FENNING,

Acting flomom'ssioner of Patents. 

